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(No Model.)

I. SCHNITZLER 8u J. DEUTSCH.

lSHIRT L.'4\ .0INGl` No. 364.047. Patented May 31, 1887.A

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iINrrnn STATES ATENT OFFICEo v IGNATZ SCHNITZLER AND JACOB DEUTSCH, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-LACING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,047, dated May 31, 1887.

Application tiled December 29, 1856. Serial No. 222,552. (No model.)

Y and JACOB DEUTSCH, both of the city, county,

rIhe invention relates to lacings employed for drawing togetherand closing the open fronts of shirts or other garments provided with a row of buttons on each side of the opening, and has for its object to provide a detachable adjustable lacing which may be easily placed upon the buttons of the shirt and will automatically adapt itself to the arrangement of buttons, so as to present a neat and symmetrical appearance and properly close the opening iu the shirt. This is obtained by means' of a doubled cord Whose two lengths are led through a single row of movable rings or keepers, in manner as hereinafter described, forming loops adapted to slip over and engage the two opposite rows of buttons on the shirt, and to be drawn up more or less to close the intermediate opening by simply pulling upon the free ends of the cord.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents the cord of which the lacing is composed. This cord may be of any suitable size, material, or color.

B B B are the keepers, consisting each of a ring or short tube, which may be constructed of braid to match the cord A, as illustrated in the drawings, or of metal or rubber, or in fact any suitable material yand in any desired form.

C represents the front of a shirt or similar garment, having a slit or opening, D, therein; and E E, the buttons arranged in two rows, one on each side of t-he opening.

The lacing is constructed by doubling the cord A and then passing each lengt-h thereof in a loop, S, through each keeper B in succession, the loops S S formed by the one length being all made to project on the one side ofthe lseries of keepers and those from the other suitable devices,to impart an ornamental finish i thereto. The lacing thus formed is applied to the shirt or other garment by simply buttoning the opposite loops, S S, over the oppositey buttons, and the opening D is then closed and the lacing adjusted by simply pulling thefree ends of the cord, which are t-hen secured by tying them in a knot.

To open the shirtt`ront it is only necessary to loosen the free ends of the cord A, whereupon the loopsS S will all be free to be opened ont to such extent as the length of the cord will permit, so that it is not necessary to remove them from the buttons. Atthe same time they may be readily removed and the whole lacing detached without disarranging its construction whenever it becomes necessary to remove it from the garment.

It' preferred, the two lengths of cord forming the loops may be crossed in passing from one pair of loops to the other.

We do not claim, broadly, the use of a single piece of cord as a lacing for shirts, said cord being looped to'engage buttons upon the shirt insuch manner as that one loop may beiextended by the yielding of one or more of the others.

Weare also aware that it is not new to form a lacing'for shirts consisting of a series of double loops tied by a hard-knot and formed upona single cord, as set forth in the patents to M. T. Gallt, No. 314, 661, of 1885; nor to combine with a shirt a lacing formed of a single cord doubled at intervals to form loops for engaging the buttons of the shirt, upon each of which loops a sleeve is mounted to ,adjust its length, the

Our invention differs from the device shown in Gallts patent, in that the cord in our lacing is not knotted at any point, but is free for adjustment at each loop, and that but one loop is formed at any one point in the length of the cord, the two loops at each keeper being obtained from different portions of the one cord, the cord being doubled between each pair of loops,whereby the novel and useful results set forth are secured. It difers, also, from the invention set forth in Hepners patent, in that ourlacing-cord is combined with a single set of keepers-one for each pair of shirt-buttonsand that the single cord, after being led and doubled through the entire set of keepers to form free running loops projecting to engage the buttons on one side thereof', isthenbrought back and again doubled through the same set of keepers in succession to form free loops projecting to engage the buttons on the other side D thereof, twoloops being thus provided at each keeper, while the two ends of the cord are inall y brought together in position to be drawn up singlyor together, more or less, as required to tighten the vseveral loops, and so close and fasten the opening in the shirt. By means of this novel combination and arrangement in a lacing of free running double loops with'single keepers, and in whi ch the two free ends of the single cord are brought together at one end of the lacing, the series of loops on either side may be simultaneously tightened by drawing upon the free end of the cord on that side, or the entire series may be tightened at once by drawing upon both cords, thereby facilitating the closing of the shirt and adjustment of the lacing without the need of specially lingering each separate loop to increase or decrease the size thereof. In case there are fewer palrs of buttons than there are keepers, the extra keepers need not be removedfrom the lacing, but may be simply slipped at the top or bottom of the lacing each into contact with the next adjacent keeper, whereby the lacing may be adapted for any number of pairs of buttons not exceeding the number of keepers, while, if required, additional keepers may be readll y added, so far as the length of the cord will permit.

We claim as our invention- 'The improved lacing for shirts and other garments, consisting of the combination, with a single set of movable rings or keepers, of a cord doubled and whose two lengths are both severally looped through each of said rings or keepers insuccession, so that eachlength shall form one of two oppositeloops projecting from each ring or keeper, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.V

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IG. SCHNITZLER. JACOB DEUTSCH.

Vitnesses:

A. N. JEsBERA, J. LEVY. 

